CTS Library

2024-2025

• Bray, Richard. "Black Preaching in Cross-Racial Cross-Cultural Congregations of the United Methodist Church: A Rhetorical Case Study of Select Sermons of the Rev. Dr. Robert Elwood Dungy, 1987-1990." PhD diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2025.

• Haynes, Freddie. "Unashamedly Black, Unapologetically Christian: The Woke Preaching of Jeremiah A. Wrightm, Jr." PhD diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2025.

• Holman, Anastasia. "Spirituality and Trauma-Sistah Circles: Black Women’s Recovery from Racial and Institutional Trauma." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Karim, Rae. "To Grieve or Not to Grieve: How Congregations Can Empower the Grief Experiences of Their Pastors." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2025.

• Jackson, James. "Perceptions of a Mental Health Counseling Ministry in a Black Church: A Phenomenological Inquiry." DMin diss. Christian Theologiccal Seminary, 2024.

• Shook, Jennifer. "Transforming through Hope: How Engaging with Lynching Photographs can assist White Viewers to Develop Skills for Change." MTS thesis. Christian Theological Seminary, 2025.

2023-2024

• Beaty, Lynel. "Will a Peer Grief Support Group for Black Women be a Conduit to Our Healing?" DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Blank, Richard. "Specters of the Past: Overcoming Residual Pain in the Church." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Buckler, Jill. "The Wesleyan Spiritual Practice of Self-Care: A Study of the Wellbeing of INUMC Pastors." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Carner, Jennifer. "The Contextual Art of the Africana Folk Preaching Tradition and the Folk Ethic in African American Preaching." PhD diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024. (unavailable due to a five-year embargo placed by the author).

• Gershon, Sarah Lynn. "The Gospel and Transformative Justice: An Exploration of How the Doctrine of Apokatastasis and Prison Abolition Respond to Shared Critiques." MTS thesis. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Gibson, Eugene. "Son of Abraham: Examining the African American Prophetic Rhetoric of the Honorable Minister Louis Farrakhan." PhD diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Howard, Notoshia. "It Might Take a Woman: A Critical Examination of the National Baptist Convention in Indianapolis, IN." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• LeCrone, Jessica. "Serving in the Metaverse: How Information Literacy Can Support Christian Ministry in a Fake News World." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• McDonald, Nicole. "Yvette A. Flunder: The Apocalyptic Prophet." PhD diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Martin, Lynn. "The Power of Narrative Practice in Pastoral Care: Using Everyday Stories to Foster Care in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Moriarty, Timothy. "Poetry As A Function Of Prayer:  A Threshold To The Sacred." MTS thesis. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Razo, Elijah. "Integrating Augustine, Origen, and Modern Theologians to Construct an Improved Theology of Sin, Making God’s Salvation More Accessible and Biblically Consistent." MTS thesis. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Session, Sherri. "Companioning Care: How Do Caregivers' Understanding of their Role Influence Their Practice?" DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• Wallace, Tawanda. "How does a Person's Spiritual Formation Inform their Response to Trauma and Life Crisis?" DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

• West, Justin. "Preaching with His Back Against the Wall: Howard Thurman, Race, and Sacred Rhetoric in Marsh Chapel, 1953-1962." PhD diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2024.

2022-2023

• Coulter-McDonald, Marla. "The Practice of Tending to the Holy within the Role of  Administration in Healthcare Chaplaincy Ministry." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2023.

• Johnson, April. "Re-Membering Reconciliation Ministry for the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ): Reclaiming Restoration-Reframing Reconciliation." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2023.

• Keys, Milton. "Empowering Enablers: Training Allies for People with Disabilities." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2023.

• Sterchi, David. "Holding Fast to What Is Good: An Evangelical Affirmation of Same-Sex Marriage." MTS thesis. Christian Theological Seminary, 2023.

2021-2022

• Abbott, Chad. "Blowing the Dust Off Each Other's Eyes: Developing a Racial Awareness Examen Through Group Spiritual Direction." DMin. diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2022.

• Cung Awi, Lal. "Household of God: Bridging The Generational Gap in Chin Churches in the United States." DMin. diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2022.

• Finney, Briana. "Drawing Hurting Souls to God by Lifting Up Christ: Developing a Christocentric Spiritual Care Intervention for Christian Patients in the Hospital." DMin. diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2022.

• Good, Amber. "Cultivating Care for Creation: Theological Foundations and Embodied Spiritual Practices towards Restoring the Human-Nature Relationships at Teter Retreat & Organic Farm." MTS thesis, Christian Theological Seminary, 2022.

• Hall, Cassidy. "Awakening Mysticism with the Scholarship of African American Women." MTS thesis, Christian Theological Seminary, 2022.

• Johnson, Judith. "Spirituality and Mental Health in a Rural Setting: The Turning Table in Crescent City as a Case Study." DMin. diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2022.

• Regennitter, Jay. "Lifting Our Hearts: The Development of Liturgy and Ordo in the Christian Church and its Effects on Local Congregations." DMin. diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2022.

• Wright-Colbert, Toni. "Principles for Establishing a Best Practice Transition/Succession Model for the African American Congregation." DMin. diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2022.

2020-2021

• Byers, David. "Good News for All People: Toward an Evaneglical and Missional Theology of Religious Pluralism." MTS thesis. Christian Theological Seminary, 2021.

• Karkosky-Litten, Amber. "Show, Share, and Spread Love: How Three United Methodiut Congregations Experienced Renewal." DMin diss. Christian Theological Senminary, 2021.

• Peebles, In Suk Hong. "Re-thinking Hopsitality: Food and Faith-Based Community Soup Kitchens." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2020.

• Rockey, Joel. "A Creative Approach through Song-writing toward the Parable of a Man and His Two Sons." MTS diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2021.

• Romack, Jeffrey. "Telling God's Story: Vision for Discipleship in Youth with a Mission (YWAM) Discipleship Training School (DTS)." DMin diss. Christian Theological Senminary, 2021.

• Trowbridge, Kyle. "Against the Moment." MTS thesis. Christian Theological Seminary, 2021.

• Weber-McReynolds, Helen. "Let It Be: New Images of Mary from a Critical Review of Virginity Doctrine History." MTS thesis. Chrostian Theological Seminary, 2021.

2019-2020

• Ferrell, Adam. "Contemplation and the Embodiment of Truth, Love, and Beauty: A Process Metaphysics for Understanding the Experience of Contemplative Prayer in the Cultivation of We/I-Being." MTS thesis, Christian Theological Seminary, 2020.

• Holloway, Sean. "Identity, Vocation, and Practical Retirement Considerations for ABC Pastors: An Exploration of Minister Retirement and Leadership Transition in American Baptist Churches." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2020.

• Miller, Kevin. "Biblical Education: Contextualized Socratic Model Discussion in Teaching Biblical Studies." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2020.

• Smith, R. Eugene. "A Theology Come of Age: Developing a Theology of Liberation with St. Thomas Aquinas and Clodovis Boff." MTS thesis, Christian Theological Seminary, 2020.

• Tumasian, Joseph. "A Study of Embedded Biases of Roman Catholics and their Effects on Extra-Liturgical Participation in the Life of the Church." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2020.

• Wright, Martin. "The Curious Case of Ogilville Christian Church." DMin diss. Christian Theological Seminary, 2020.